> GNU gettext does its own encoding conversion. It reads the program's
> character encoding from the LC_CTYPE locale and converts the material in
> the translation catalogs on the fly for output. This is great in general,
> really, but for the postmaster it's a problem. If LC_CTYPE is fixed for
> the cluster and you later on change your mind about the message language
> the it will be recoded into the character set that LC_CTYPE says. And if
> that character set does not match the one that is set as the backend
> encoding internally then who knows what will happen when this stuff is
> recoded again as it's sent to the client. Big, big mess.
Then in another word, it's completely broken. Sigh.
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Tatsuo Ishii